{"id":150,"date":"2014-07-30T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-07-30T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:23:08","slug":"steering-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2014\/07\/30\/steering-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the completion of the steering shaft it was time to look at the downlink&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wonderfully I found a place that did universal joints to join the GM &#8220;D&#8221; shaft on the column to the Ford splined shaft. The same place did splined to splined and I picked up a section of double splined rod which just happened to be the *perfect* length!<\/p>\n<p>Only one problem, seems there is a slight issue with my chassis and I needed to make an alteration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-xYVI1T07_rk\/UQpHJUZtjII\/AAAAAAAAVp8\/3TnFDBZoxl4\/s800\/20130130_230510.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then weld in a brace so that the rack doesn&#8217;t move about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ui4WhEFDOFo\/UpTMLy8P2cI\/AAAAAAAAerg\/U-4ZeI1jIwk\/s800\/20131126_154511.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which then means the downlink fits!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-NPhQd9cDVeE\/UQpa1hi8TzI\/AAAAAAAAjmQ\/9jVvtYVIDj4\/s800\/20130131_114348.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Er, ish&#8230; it hits the pedal box.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-yDqv9wFnFhw\/UpKSY3rYQYI\/AAAAAAAAeoA\/me758Sk1pz4\/s800\/20131124_230134.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So next thing is the pedal box.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the completion of the steering shaft it was time to look at the downlink&#8230; Wonderfully I found a place that did universal joints to join the GM &#8220;D&#8221; shaft on the column to the Ford splined shaft. The same place did splined to splined and I picked up a section of double splined rod &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2014\/07\/30\/steering-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steering 3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}